Summary
In this chapter, we learned about the various database services offered by Amazon, comprising both relational and non-relational databases services. You learned how AWS enables you to quickly deploy new RDS databases and offers full management of your database as a service, rather than you having to provision EC2 instances that you will install database software on.
Amazon RDS comes with six engines – MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora. Amazon RDS is a regional service and must be deployed in your VPC. You have options to configure for high availability using services such as Multi-AZ and backup and restore strategies. You can also scale out read copies of your RDS database to offload read queries away from the primary master copy of your database.
Amazon Aurora comes with a lot more features and addresses some of the limitations of traditional RDS engines out of the box, including features such as self-healing and high availability...
